Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900. School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion,

University of Birmingham https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/cmr1900 @cmr1900project

CMR1900 Newsletter Christian-Muslim Relations

A Bibliographical History 1500 - 1900

In this issue:

17th century volumes

completed!

Call for suggestions:

Teaching CMR

Project news

Publications

Dates for your diary

Birmingham Team

General Editor:

Professor David Thomas

Research Officer:

Dr John Chesworth

Research Associate:

Dr Emma Gaze Loghin

Project Assistant:

Ms Sinéad Cussen

Team Leaders

Africa & the Americas:

Professor Martha Frederiks

Eastern Europe:

Dr Stanisław Grodź

Western Europe:

Dr Clinton Bennett

Middle East & North Africa:

Professor Lejla Demiri

East, South, and South-East

Asia and Oceania:

Professor Douglas Pratt

W elcome to the Autumn edition of the CMR1900 newsletter.

This edition is particularly publication-heavy with lots of new titles to explore,

but you will also find other news items and details of forthcoming events

which may be of interest. This issue includes an update from David Thomas

now we have completed the 17th century, and a call for your suggestions

regarding one of the CMR-related side projects, ‘Teaching CMR’. As ever, we

welcome your contributions, please send details to Sinéad Cussen.

Issue 4 - Autumn 2017

CMR: The completion of the 17th-century

I am delighted to say that we have completed work on all four of the 17th

century volumes of CMR. CMR 8 and 11 were published some time ago, CMR

10 was published in October, and CMR 9 will be published before the end of

the year.

We are very happy with them, and I trust you will be when you see them.

This is an occasion for congratulations to all who have contributed.

Of course, what lies ahead still presents a considerable challenge. From our

calculations, it seems that the 18th century entries will occupy three or

maybe four volumes, and the 19th century volumes a huge eight volumes.

There is a great deal still to do.

The dedication of contributors, section editors, editorial staff, proof readers,

and all those who have brought these volumes to completion exceeds

expectations. I trust you are rewarded by knowing that you are contributing

towards a work that will sustain scholarship for years to come.

David Thomas, CMR Project Director

Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900. School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion,

University of Birmingham https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/cmr1900 @cmr1900project

Teaching CMR: call for suggestions!

These materials will help students explore and reflect on how Christians and Muslims have perceived each other over the past thousand years; their knowledge of each other’s religion and cultures; their positive and negative assumptions; evidence of hostility and understanding. In September we had an initial meeting with some teachers, educationalists and curricula /textbook authors, and this went very well.

We have had some feedback from the teachers with regard to lesson topic areas in history where we could perhaps introduce some classroom materials derived from CMR entries. We have summarised those that seem to have the most potential to intersect with CMR entries below.

If anyone can think of any entries or authors that might be relevant for these topic areas, please contact Claire Norton.

Topic areas identified so far:

1. The English East India Company and British Empire in South Asia, 1600 -

partition. Any first-hand accounts? Sources describing interactions or perceptions?

2. The Afro-American Atlantic slave trade. Any relevant sources?

3. Renaissance period. Any influential Muslim thinker commenting on Christian-

Muslim relations at this time?

4. Reformation. Any sources/entries on Muslim views of the Reformation?

In October we held a team meeting in Brussels to discuss the changing nature

of Christian-Muslim relations in the 18th and 19th centuries, and how this can

best be represented in the project volumes. The 18th century has yielded

fewer entries than the 17th century, reflecting changing geopolitical and

cultural interests during this period. With this in mind, we discussed the

events and themes to be covered in the introductory essays, in order to

contextualise the shifting borders and attitudes of these centuries. The 19th

century, although by no means small with over 1000 entries currently

planned, brings its own challenges. A key issue under discussion is that of

identity; how should we deal with authors who increasingly may not identify

with a particular religious appellation, even if their work remains influential

for CMR? In short, as David Thomas mentioned, there is a great deal of

work to be done, but we look forward to the exciting challenges ahead.

The aim of Teaching CMR is to make use of the information in the CMR volumes, together with extracts from some of the texts, to produce curriculum-enhancing classroom materials appropriate for use in English secondary school religious education or history classes.

CMR in the 18th and 19th centuries

Other publications on Christian-Muslim relations

Vol 9 of Yearbook of Muslims in Europe has just been published

by Brill.

This comprehensive annual reference work summarises

significant activities, trends and developments, and features the most current statistical information available from

forty-four European countries.

An essential resource for analysis of Europe's dynamic

Muslim populations.

The Routledge Handbook on Christian-Muslim Relations spans 15 centuries and a multitude

of countries.

Its 45 chapters cover topics from ‘Christians in Muslim

Spain’ and ‘Arts in the Eastern Mediterranean before the

Crusades’ to ‘Perceptions of God in Christianity and Islam’ and contemporary issues such

as Islamophobia.

It is an excellent resource for understanding the past and for highlighting lessons for future relations between the world’s

two largest religions.

Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900. School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion,

University of Birmingham https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/cmr1900 @cmr1900project

News David D. Grafton (Section Editor, North America) attended and presented a paper at the Inaugural Conference of the Christian-Muslim Studies Network, organized by the School of Divinity, the University of Edinburgh. The Network is scheduled to meet annually (Beirut 2018, Atlanta 2019). A call for papers will be issued in early 2018.

Lejla Demiri (Team Leader, MENA) co-organised the annual conference of the working group Das osmanische Europa entitled The Power of Connections: Inter-personal Networks and Agency in the Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Europe. This was held at the University of Tübingen.

At the University of Birmingham, a seminar was recently held to showcase the research projects within the Department of Theology and Religion. This was in collaboration with Hugh Houghton, who presented his forthcom-ing AHRC-funded project Codex Zacynthius, and Oliver Scharbrodt, who is soon to begin his ERC-funded ALTERUMMA project looking at transnational Shi’i Islam. David Thomas and the Birmingham team joined them to outline the character and aims of CMR.

We welcome Charles Ramsey, a specialist on Christian-Muslim relations in the Indian subcontinent, who has joined Alan Guenther and Gordon Nickel to over-see work on the huge number of entries we expect from that region in the next few years.

We also welcome Charles Tieszen to work on the Thematic History Volumes, another of the CMR spinoff projects, with Douglas Pratt.

Workshop: Muslim societies and Islam University of Birmingham, 23 November 2017

Conference: Ethical Approaches to Peaceful Coexistence joint event organised by the Muslim Council of Wales, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and the Knowledge Exchange Program. City Hall, Cardiff. 5 December 2017

Symposium: Islam, Muslims, and education in Britain Cardiff University, 15 January 2018

Public lecture:

Forbidden Fruit: Translating the Qur’an in early modern Europe

by Alastair Hamilton, followed by book launch of CMR volumes 9 and 10,

University of Birmingham, 25 January 2018

Conference: Emergent Religious Pluralism(s) Woolf Institute, 16-17 April 2018

PLURIEL congress: Islam and Belonging - second International Congress of University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL) Rome, 26-28 June 2018

Dates for your diary

Illustrations from Volume 9

Detail from The siege of Malta, painting

by Matteo Perez d’Aleccio. National

Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Facsimile of the Gospel of Barnabas,

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Illustration of Morisco women’s clothing by Christoph Weiditz, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900. School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion,

University of Birmingham https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/cmr1900 @cmr1900project

What is CMR1900?

Christian-Muslim Relations 1500

- 1900 (CMR1900) traces the

history of relations between

followers of the world’s two

most populous religions in the

early modern and modern

period. The project seeks to

explore the question of what

happened to Christian-Muslim

relations in the period 1500-

1900, looking at how Christians

and Muslims deployed inherited

depictions, as well as assessing

how far they moved beyond

them.

CMR1900 builds on the suc-

cessful AHRC funded project

CMR600 which examined the

time period 600—1500 and was

published by Brill (Leiden) in 5

volumes. CMR1900 is set to

comprise a further 17 volumes.

All volumes are published by

Brill as a sub-series of the

History of Christian-Muslim

Relations (HCMR) series.

Each volume contains introduc-

tory essays on various topics, in

addition to the entries which

provide:

-biographical details of authors

-full descriptive accounts of the

contents of their works

-explanations of the significance

for Christian-Muslim relations

-and exhaustive lists of manu-

scripts, editions, translations

and studies.

For more information about the

project please visit our website:

www.birmingham.ac.uk/cmr1900

If you have any questions about

the project, or would like to be

involved, please contact the

project team:

cmr1900@contacts.bham.ac.uk

For further updates and links to

articles and projects that could

be of interest, you can also fol-

low us on Twitter at

@cmr1900project.

Recent and forthcoming publications Click on the images to be taken to the website for each book

Open access!

Oxford Bibliographies was designed to help researchers navigate the growing mass of academic output available both in print and online. We are pleased to announce that CMR will soon be listed, which will hopefully help even more scholars access our resources.

As you may be aware, we publish in both online (Christian-Muslim Relations Online II) and print format. So that more contributors can see their work published more quickly, we are now moving to a process whereby 19th century entries are published online in advance of the print format. Watch this space!

And finally… we have recently reached 100 followers on Twitter! We are finding this a useful way to engage with colleagues and institutions, and to hear about events and publications—do join us.

This volume provides an

overview of contemporary

Sufi involvement in politics,

using a range of approaches

and disciplines.

The co-authors (who chair the

Adyan Foundation, Beirut)

explore Christian and

Muslim teaching with regard

to religious “otherness”.

This book explores the

theme of cross veneration as

represented in medieval

Christian & Muslim writing.

Now translated into Indone-

sian with new material, this

book examines encounters

between Dutch colonialism

and Islam in Indonesia.

[OPEN ACCESS]

Long-lost 4th C Gospel

commentary now available,

with introduction and

English translation by

Hugh Houghton.

Special issue on the

Protestant Reformation and

Islam. Open access!

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